Automation QA Engineer

Company Description

Merkle, a dentsu company, powers the experience economy. For more than 35 years, the company has put people at the heart of its approach to digital business transformation. As the only integrated experience consultancy in the world with a heritage in data science and business performance, Merkle delivers holistic, end-to-end experiences that promote growth, engagement, and loyalty. Merkle's expertise has earned recognition as a "Leader" by top industry analyst firms, in categories such as digital transformation and commerce, experience design, engineering and technology integration, digital marketing, data science, CRM and loyalty, and customer data management. With more than 16,000 employees, Merkle operates in 30+ countries throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. For more information, visit www.merkle.com.

And we are looking for a Automation QA Engineer to join us! If you're passionate about technology, and ready to contribute to exciting projects, we'd love to have you on our team!

Job Description

What is your role?

• Develop automated tests
• Work with common test automation frameworks and tools
• Integrate with CI/CD tools and pipeline (i.e. Jenkins)
• Identify potential quality risks.
• Analyze results and report defects
• Work within an Agile development environment
• Collaborate with colleagues onshore and offshore daily

You will report to the Marketing Solutions Manager.

Qualifications

What should you have?

• 3+ years of commercial experience in testing Web and Client/Server applications
• Experience with automated testing tools will be a huge advantage (for example Selenium, Cucumber, Postman)
• Experience with the best practices in creating system test scripts, test execution and defect reporting/tracking
• Experience in testing web applications across different platforms and browsers
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Git, Jenkins
• Knowledge of SQL, PLSQL
• Troubleshoot and cause skills
• Collaborate with a team on urgent issues resolution
• Understanding of the following Web technologies: HTTP(S), S/FTP, Web Services (SOAP, RESTful)
• Have contagious passion about quality
• Very good verbal and written English

Desirable Experience:

• Understanding of performance testing principles and best practices
• Good programming skills in one of the following languages: JAVA, PHP, JavaScript, C++ and understanding of OOP principles, data structures
• Experience of web usability, i18n and accessibility testing and the corresponding tools
• Understanding of the principles of Agile software development
• Knowledge in some main Internet and e-commerce principles such as: SEO, Web Analytics, Geotargeting, CDN

Additional Information

We do not sponsor work visa.

For those who don't have Portuguese documents (NIF and NISS), we suggest you to search for more information at local country Social Security entities, and on SEF (Serviços Estrangeiros e Fronteiras), for possible roles in Merkle Portugal.

Benefits and perks:

• Modern Technology and Latest IT tools
• Software-house environment
• Agile and Flexible working hours
• Hybrid work system (remote friendly)
• Digital nomad policy
• Focus on career development
• Health insurance (also included for the household)
• Mental health support
• Volunteer experiences and sustainable mindset
• 25 vacation days + 3 wellness days per year
• Beers (after 6pm), foosball, and ping-pong! #workhardplayhard
• Free breakfast every second Monday of the month
• Employee discounts
• Team & Company events 🎉

Inclusion & Diversity

We value the strength diversity brings to our business and are working to build a more inclusive workplace through partnerships with Stonewall, Business Disability Forum and Business in the Community's race and gender equality campaigns. We are happy to discuss all flexible and Agile approaches to working for all our roles – we can't promise we will offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly.

If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with the recruiter who contacts you.

#LI-Hybrid